It's not just fish, plastic pollution harms the bacteria that help us breathe

Sat, 18 May 2019 00:24:51 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

"Ten per cent of the oxygen we breathe comes from just one kind of
bacteria in the ocean. Now laboratory tests have shown that these
bacteria are susceptible to plastic pollution, according to a study
published in Communications Biology."